As if I don't have enough
to
spend my money on as it is. Yesterday I was in Art
Essentials with a freind. There was a display rack there from
Winsor Newton and Grumbacher. They had of all things water
soluable
oil paint. I picked up a brochure. Next day, I was back and
$100 later, I had a minimal set of paints and a couple of canvas
boards.
Now, while I am no great artist, I am no beginner either. I
started
oil painting about 20 years ago. Last time I had a brush in my
hand
was about 8 years ago. Sort of lost interest. I got tired
of
the turpentine and the smell. I lost interest for other reasons,
such as no convinient classes at the local adultry education, and other
reasons.

So, here is my quicky
impression
of water based oil paint.

1. It ain't exactly the
same.
Now mind you, as I am writing this, I have one hour of time at
the
canvas with this paint. Also, I am pretty rusty, so many factors
could cloud my judgement here. One of the ways it does not seem
the
same is the way the painting medium mixes with the paint. It
seems
to take very little to thin the paint down, which also does not seem to
be very thick in the first place. The feel of the paint going on
the canvas also seems to be different (although, I did this on canvas
board,
rather than a stretched canvas, so that and a bad memory may have
something
to do with it). Also, the paint I put on with a palette knife did
not seem to go on the same either, but this could also be bad memory.

2. It is pretty
similar
in the way paint will mix on the canvas. It is just as easy to
blend
from one color to the next just like regular oil.

3. Overall feeling is
mixed.
I am going to try to decide on a real project to do to really give the
paint a test. I suspect I am going to like this stuff once I get
used to it. I has little oder. On a scale of 0 to 10, with
10 being standard oil paint, this stuff is a 1. It has even less
oder I think than acrylic paint does.

My recomendation. If
you don't mind spending a couple of hundred dollars for a new set of
paints,
and you currently use oils, you might want to consider this
stuff.
If you are using acrylic paint, don't bother. If you don't like
oil
paint, you won't like this stuff either. But if the only reason
you
don't use oil is the smell, you might want to give this stuff a
try.
And this brings up compatability.

You can use the water
soluable
oils with regular oils. No problem. But acrylic is a
different
story, or actually, the same old story. You can put oil paint
over
acrylic, but you cannot put acrylic over oil, even the water soluable
oils.

Maybe soon I can post some
pictures of my paintings, that way I can be publicly humiliated.